Grants Calendar

This is a collection of funding opportunities that may be of interest to social scientists.
If you are a faculty member in the UC Davis Division of Social Sciences and would like help in applying for an extramural grant, please contact the ISS grant writer, Belinda Martineau: bmartineau@ucdavis.edu.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for its ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships. This program offers small teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive research project in the humanities and related social sciences. Collaborations that involve the participation of assistant and associate faculty members are particularly encouraged. Deadline: September 27, 2017.

The NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers postdoctoral research fellowships that support research in any field within the purview of the SBE sciences. Topic areas of interest include: population change; sources of disparities, for example in social, economic, or health contexts, and processes that alleviate those disparities; communication, language, and linguistics; and technology, new media, and social networks. Full Proposal Deadline (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): October 9, 2017 (second Monday in October annually thereafter).

As part of its effort to encourage and support projects that explicitly integrate education and basic research, the Sociology Program provides support to improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation projects undertaken by doctoral students enrolled in U.S. universities when the dissertation research is conducted in a scientifically sound manner and it offers strong potential for enhancing more general scientific knowledge. Deadlines: October 16, 2017 (and October 15 annually thereafter).

The Russell Sage Foundation has recently launched a number of new initiatives consistent with RSF’s interests in strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. Topics include: Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge; The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act; Non-Standard Employment; and Computational Social Science.
Next deadline for Letters of Inquiry for the Non-Standard Employment and The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act initiatives: November 30, 2017.

The Russell Sage Foundation supports research on Social Inequality; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity & Immigration; and Behavioral Economics through its Regular Programs. Projects that use innovative data or methodologies to address important questions on these topics are especially encouraged. Letter of Inquiry Deadline: November 30, 2017 (11am PT).

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress announces the Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies to examine the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and international relations using the Library’s collections and resources. Deadline: December 6, 2017.

Collaborative Research Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) support interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences. Deadline: December 6, 2017.

These grants support scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Deadlines: January 16, 2018 (January 15 annually thereafter) and August 15, 2018 (August 15 annually thereafter).

Under this program, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research and data collection and dissemination projects that advance the development, understanding, and quality of the S&T enterprise in the United States and globally. Deadlines: January 15, 2018 (and January 15 annually thereafter).

Proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules are considered for LSS Program grants. The program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. Deadlines: January 16, 2018 (January 15 annually thereafter) and August 1, 2018 (August 1 annually thereafter).

The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span. Full Proposal Target Dates: January 16, 2018 (January 15 annually thereafter) and July 16, 2018 (July 15 annually thereafter).

These research grants support basic research on all forms of human social organization—societies, institutions, groups and demography—and processes of individual and institutional change. Full proposal target dates: January 16, 2018 (January 15 annually thereafter) and August 15, 2018 (August 15 annually thereafter).

DS supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society. Full Proposal Target Dates: January 16, 2018 (January 15 annually thereafter) and July 16, 2018 (July 15 annually thereafter).

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Full Proposal Target Dates: January 16, 2018 for Scholars proposals (January 16 annually thereafter) and January 15, 2018 for Senior Research or Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant proposals (January 15 annually thereafter); and August 16, 2018 for Scholars proposals (August 16 annually thereafter) and August 15, 2018 for Senior Research or Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant proposals (August 15 annually thereafter).

Digital Humanities Advancement Grants support digital projects from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Deadline: January 16, 2018.

The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. The program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, and also funds interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics. Deadlines: January 18, 2018 (and January 18 annually thereafter) and August 20, 2018 (and August 18 annually thereafter).

The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, including medical science. Deadlines: February 2, 2018 (February 2 annually thereafter) and August 3, 2018 (August 3 annually thereafter).

SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Deadlines: February 2, 2018 (February 2 annually thereafter) and September 4, 2018 (September 3 annually thereafter).

The Public Scholar program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Books supported by this program must be grounded in humanities research and scholarship. They must address significant humanities themes likely to be of broad interest and must be written in a readily accessible style. Deadline: February 7, 2018.

The SciSIP program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. The PI must be the advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI. Deadlines: February 9, 2018 (February 9 annually thereafter) and September 9, 2018 (September 9 annually thereafter).

The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. The SciSIP program invites the participation of researchers from all of the social, behavioral and economic sciences as well as those working in domain-specific applications such as chemistry, biology, physics, or nanotechnology. Deadlines: February 9, 2018 (February 9 annually thereafter) and September 10, 2018 (September 9 annually thereafter).

The Cognitive Neuroscience Program within NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time. Full proposal target dates: February 12, 2018 (February 11 annually thereafter) and August 13, 2018 (August 13 annually thereafter).

CCE STEM funds research projects that identify factors that are efficacious in the formation of ethical STEM researchers in all the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports. CCE STEM research projects will use basic research to produce knowledge about what constitutes responsible or irresponsible, just or unjust scientific practices and sociotechnical systems, and how to best instill students with this knowledge. Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 15, 2018 (February 15 annually thereafter).

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on the U.S. Congress. The competition is open to political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists; the Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation to apply. Deadline: April 1, 2018.

Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Deadline: April 11, 2018.